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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

'Hoarding: Buried Alive': Hoarder's House Makes Code Enforcement Officer Physically Sick

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'Hoarding: Buried Alive': Hoarder's House Makes Code Enforcement Officer Physically Sick
Many viewers have probably wondered how anyone can enter some of the squalid, over-stuffed homes featured on "Hoarding: Buried Alive" (Sun., 9 p.m. EST on TLC) without vomiting or passing out.
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'Tiny' joins Harlem Globetrotters as world's tallest basketball player
US basketball team, The Harlem Globetrotters unveil their new British team mate Paul "Tiny" Sturgess, who happens to be the world's tallest player at 7 foot 8 inches.
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Man Finds Out He‘s ’Dead’ After He Tries to Get a Home Loan
A South Carolina man was shocked when he received his credit report and read, “File not scored because subject is deceased.” Apparently, since 2009, Bank of America (BofA) has been telling credit rating agencies that he is dead.
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Swiss man replaces car's broken heater with a wood burning stove
When his Volvo's heater broke, Pascal Prokop took drastic action to avoid the bitter Swiss winter and installed a wood burning stove in the front of his car.
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Man accused of $US25k laundry detergent theft
A Minnesota man has been arrested and charged with stealing thousands of dollars worth of laundry detergent, apparently by wheeling it out of a store in a trolley.
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China’s Electric Cars Contribute More to Pollution Than Gas Guzzlers
A study by the University of Tennessee of electric vehicles in China, however, found that when you factor in where and how the energy for those vehicles is produced, the result is actually worse for public health when compared to gas-powered cars.
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On Valentine's day, a museum for broken hearts
'A love museum, just upside down'
What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a windscreen during a stormy breakup?
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'Half-Sheep Half-Human' Baby Causes Outrage In Sokoto, Northwest Nigeria
A sheep has allegedly given birth to a ‘half-sheep half-human’ baby in Sokoto, Nigeria.
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Male strip show sparks school complaints
Mothers of several pupils at a primary school have complained after a parents' association held a male strip show featuring full frontal nudity to raise funds.
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Cologne witchcraft trial reopens after 400 years
A witchcraft trial is re-opening in Cologne on Monday in the hope that one woman will have her name cleared, centuries after being burned at the stake.
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Barefoot snow runner sets 5km world record
A German physiotherapist who ran barefoot over snow for five kilometres in less than 25 minutes has gotten into the Guinness Book of Records – but paid for it with bloody feet which needed medical treatment afterwards.
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Wacky 911 calls
A Toronto baby undergoing potty-training dialled 911 with a cellphone after its mother provided the device as a diversion
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The woman who is so allergic to water that she can't even kiss her fiancé
For most couples Valentine's Day is a chance to get down to some serious smooching. But for Rachel Prince and fiancé Lee Warwick, kissing is off the agenda tomorrow - or any day soon - due to her rare allergy to water.
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Meet the world's 'fattest man' who lives in London: 58-stone Keith is so huge he needs 18 carers to keep him alive
A Briton who devours eight hotdogs for breakfast has won the dubious accolade of being named the world’s fattest man.
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Valentine's Day 'wedding' for ram and deer at China zoo
A ram and a deer are set to be "married" at a zoo in south-western China on Valentine's Day
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Whitney Houston 'died from drugs and NOT from drowning' family 'are told by coroner' as fears grow over mental state of her daughter
'Coroner tells family not enough water in singer's lungs to conclude she had drowned'
'She had already died before her head went under the water'
Daughter Bobbi Kristina, 18, found asleep in hotel bathtub just 24 hours before
Fears grow teenager is suicidal after she is hospitalised TWICE since mother's death
Star found under water after mixing a cocktail of prescription drugs with alcohol, it is claimed
Award-winning star was on 'brink of bankruptcy' having 'frittered away pop fortune on crack cocaine'
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